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| Volume VI, Issue 3 July 2005 Flying ThreadsEverybody's Gone Surfin'...Remember , the Beach Boys’ hit song "Everybody’s gone surfin’"? Back in the sixties, it was boys, beach, boys and fun in the sun ogling the boys. {Does anyone else see a trend in there?} Fast forward to 2005, now surfing is the web, {I think it might be more accurate to say there are electronic surfers instead of only the water kind… and suddenly I picture putting the two of them together to be a bad thing — bzzt!} sun is a no-no and boys or men can be around as long as they support our passion.I have gone surfing. Yes sir, I went on the web to find out about smocking. {The ‘Web may never be the same} Ask for dots and I investigate. {Though you really needed my help to search effectively. Sheesh, have I taught you nothing, young grasshopper?} Voila arriving in the store are smocking supplies—plates or charts, dots and the best fabric from Spechler-Vogel Imperial Batiste. {I tried to control the really fru-fru colours by giving my suggestions. It might have worked. By the by, I know infant smocking clothing is supposed to be in pastels but that doesn’t mean that have to all be nauseating shades of pink.} Luck was on my side as I had the opportunity to acquire more shelving. {Or Fate intervened. I haven’t decided which.} Lots of space to add small bolts of batiste. As dots and charts take up very little space and our chart inventory had grown to be very snug, we doubled the number of our pine chart holders. {I am not re-reorganizing the charts again after the two of you mucked up my very logical system, thankyouverymuch.} That lead to rearranging the charts into more categories. {Like what I originally had done.} Golden Threads is on a constant change mode. {Yeah, people still go to the wrong corner of the store for the DMC. Mind you, it took me fifteen minutes of looking right at the new location of the floss before I noticed that it got moved.} Talking about acquisitions. More and more DMC cabinets which are filled with the full wool selection. {I have no idea how they managed this with all the other stuff we have in the store.} But when Elly and I looked at our available canvases, we were very short on variety of subjects and sizes. {Your options include fruit, fruit, and fruit. Which would you like?} Back to the web, to find a distributor for stamped canvases by Margot, Rico, Royal Paris and Cewec. {Some of the designs are neat, and this is coming from me.} These additions will complement our Vervaco line plus we continue to carry Zweigart’s mono and Penelope canvases in the available counts. To relax from my state of exhaustion, I found time to finish, yes I said finish, {cue celestial music here} some more projects. I found a design of Nora Corbet’s which she had done for her mother’s company, Told in the Garden, back in the 1980’s. It was called Renaissance. I brought it into today’s style by using Caron’s Wildflowers Midnight. {I’m not sure if it’s a dragon or a bird in that. Pretty though.} Plus I completed my luscious grapes which I had started about 3 summers ago. {HA. I’m not the only one to take three years to finish a project, missy!} I like this style—one old and one new at the same time. {Your stash is worse than mine for started projects. You’ll be able to claim old-and-new for a while.} Currently new is Lynne Nicoletti’s Velveteen Rabbit and old is JanLynn’s Collecting Shells. {What’s that one up to in age again?} Plus I had to clean up the store {note that ‘Priority Cleaning’ from the last issue does not work for wide open spaces like the store} for our annual Christmas in July Sale! That can only mean surprises for the sale. {And surprises for me. This brings to mind some worry. It’s going to take me the full three weeks to figure them all out.} Do You Ever......have those moments of utter frustration to find perfectly square frames for quick little designs? Come visit the store to check out 4", 5", and 6" square frames by Middleton Classics. Pre-cut Foamcore is included in each frame, so all you need to do is stretch your picture and pop it into place. Voilà!Contact Info
Hamilton, ON Canada Phone: 905.318.8254 Email: inquiries @ gthreads.com Business Hours Memo
Christmas in July SaleMonday July 11 to Saturday July 30, 2005
July Christmas Contest Elly suggested that each newsletter receive a set of tickets. When you visit the store, drop have your filled out ticket into the gold Christmas box. Keep the other half to claim your prize if you win. (Diplomatic way to eliminate (get rid of) those tickets my darling Chris bought years ago which added clutter to the store.) Applies only to in-stock items during the course of the sale. Sorry, no rain checks or special orders. Back to the Archive |